Futurum

OCTOBER 17, 2023

I strongly believe that the world needs engineers with strong critical thinking skills, who know how to ask questions, understand bias, construct and evaluate arguments, and think comprehensively and creatively. This goes hand in hand with ethical thinking.

Biology 84

Biology Agriculture Engineering Critical Thinking 84

Futurum

APRIL 18, 2023

Dane notes that there are few undergraduate courses specific to MS&E but says that as well as materials science, courses in mechanical engineering, chemical engineering, chemistry or physics are often relevant. • How did Dane become a materials scientist and engineer?

Science 98

Science Sciences Learning Artificial Intelligence 98

Stephen Wolfram

JANUARY 9, 2024

The function Map takes a function f and “maps it” over a list: Comap does the “mathematically co-” version of this, taking a list of functions and “comapping” them onto a single argument: Why is this useful? But we wanted to be able to compute hundreds of different functions to arbitrary precision for any complex values of their arguments.

Computer 102

Computer Calculus Construction Accessibility 102

Stephen Wolfram

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

I think Yves Pomeau already had a theoretical argument for this, but as far as I was concerned, it was (at least at first) just a “next thing to try”.

Physics 95

Physics Computer Mathematics Science 95